Quotes About Culture

593 Still (very still), at the heart of "literary culture" is the big, blockbuster novel by middle-of-the-road writers, the run-of-the-mill four-hundred-page page-turner. Amazingly, people continue to want to read that.

Britannia became the land of the Angles or Ængla Land.

Bede invented the idea of England, or at least the idea of the English as a single people.

True or not, it's important to have stories ? they are what give us the right to walk the earth and have a name.

El mundo de los humanos ha dejado de ser humano... Quizá se ha abusado tanto de los buenos sentimientos que se han acabado, como pasó con el carbón.

Aquí lo que nos importa es preservar las raíces, que los que vengan encuentren el origen, la antigüedad.

They were taught to be technicians, not thinkers, in a culture that is long on know-how and short on know-why.

Mr. Obama has always been at heart a healer, a reconciler eager to find common ground with people who hated him for ideological, political and racial reasons. It is a primary reason for his political success and status today as the most admired political figure in our culture.

Americans, Douglass believed, instinctively and culturally watched history and preferred not to act in it.

one of the first signs of a self-destructing aboriginal culture always seems to be an increase in the use of drugs and intoxicants

Of course. And you already know you have hers," Pei said. And then, whatever his culture might have demanded, he cleared his throat hard, harshly. "And mine," he said huskily.

It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.

Normal Iraqi etiquette was forgotten the moment drivers sat behind the wheel.

Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. It's a shame that compassion doesn't.

In The Past, Andy Warhol Will Be Psychic For 15 seconds

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic....

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

I am such a nonentity by the standards of our culture that People magazine not only will never feature a piece about me but might also reject my attempts to subscribe to their publication on the grounds that the black-hole gravity of my noncelebrity is powerful enough to suck their entire enterprise into oblivion.

These days law thinks it's about nothin' but laws. Law don't remember it was once handed down from somewhere, that it once meant not just no, but was a way to live and a reason to live that way. Law now thinks nobody but politicians made it or remake it, so maybe it ain't a surprise some people don't care anymore about law, and even some lawmen don't understand the real reason for law.

Our culture sentimentalizes children, and we forget one of the things that we should most remember from that time of our lives: Children know that this world can be hard on them, harder than it is on adults. They are physically weaker than adults, financially dependent, and in times of danger, nothing clarifies our thinking more than an awareness of our extreme vulnerability.

The mommy-porn genre currently sweeping the book industry and the Babylonian excess of most television shows probably fall within the historical norm in our culture's sleaze index and are not omens of the imminent collapse of civilization, though if I were not so busy, I might start building an ark.

So I flew to Bombay. This is not so illogical if you realize three things: that a stint in India will beat the restlessness out of any living creature; that a little money can go a long way there; and that a novel set in Portugal in 1939 may have very little to do with Portugal in 1939. I

Agama bukan sekadar ritual dan tata cara. Ada makna di balik ritual dan tata cara itu.

English was jazz music, German was classical music, French was ecclesiastical music, and Spanish was the music from the streets.